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mircea_popescu: people with money they don't know what to do with are the very definition of schmuckdom
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the idea wasn't that, but to educate thiel so he's less of a schmuck.
mircea_popescu: incidentally... olah is kinda how hungarians say romanian.
mircea_popescu: this is the very stuff of life, following our flights of fancy.
mircea_popescu: but the proposition that one shouldn't or understandably wouldn't for it may turn out to be just fancy... that's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, i'm not proposing anyone's obliged to follow any particular flight of fancy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but what if your work is meaningless without $b synchrophasotron ? <<< i thought it was 50k.
mircea_popescu: but it's inescapable. everything's getting forked. gpg, linux, the world.
mircea_popescu: draw up the entire putative history eight nine steps removed in all directions, till the night comes and we go home.
mircea_popescu: lettuce all sit forever and ponder the implications of asking the girl out, of measuring the fucking crystals, of spitting on the ant.
mircea_popescu: as if. but somehow, a billion idiots picked this bit of shoeshiner's philosophy as their foundational line.
mircea_popescu: the story of individual america is basically one line : "there's no difference between the rich man and the poor man who hasn't yet decided what to buy".
mircea_popescu: not to mention the "all metaconsiderations, no agency"
mircea_popescu: somehow the world should be impressed with this "progress", much in the manner parents should be impressed with "look, no hands!"
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only thing the west ever does is, "try and spam it!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, everything in that world devolves to spam, it's one and only true mother.
mircea_popescu: decimation there's a reason i don't live in "civilised" shitholes. i can taste their "feasts of engineering".
mircea_popescu: decimation i think it was here. i didn't care to check it out.
mircea_popescu: there's fruit, and it's grandiose. then there's "fruit", imported by supermarkets for the usian market. you can get quite startling contrasts by buying in both.
mircea_popescu: or is it just, like the gestapo, simply the only shared figment of their infertile imaginations ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, now tell me this : how does teh ussa follow teh expat masse ? shadow fuhrer directs it ?
mircea_popescu: the usians have a fucktarded chain selling the worst goop.
mircea_popescu: there's even a chain of HORRIBLE icecream. in this town, that has the best icecream i have ever tasted, by a long shot, and abundantly supplied by numerous artisanal gelaterias
mircea_popescu: i can't tell you how many times i've stormed out of a shithole, inexplicable in context.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if they deliberately constructed a home away from home, these people.
mircea_popescu: the soviet restaurant thing is quite palpable here in argentina.
mircea_popescu: i grew permanganate crystals, at least that's a meth precurso.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a thought : if al spent the past five years measuring things rather than skulking, he'd be in a much better position todasy than five years ago.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel the problem isn't exactly of the equipment. the problem is that if you make new equipment, you don't know if you're measuring the new equipment vs the old equipment or an actual effect.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform look, irrespective of all that : he can just do the thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is a fundamental difference between lysenko (nutter whose shit DIDNT WORK) and this (if it works)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing keeps him from forking chemistry tho.
mircea_popescu: not is of course practice, which is to say : if I were to declare I am ignoring "all that Einstein jazz", all physics penned after 1900 or so, and then built a cathodic tube television that worked just fine without accounting for quantum effects, the trashing and bashing of Einstein fans would be all in vain : I'll just shrug my shoulders, keep building and selling my television sets and care not on whit of whatever th
mircea_popescu: "This flat, unyielding ignorance-as-the-forerunner-of-oblivion is both perfectly safev and exactly the adequate pill for the poison in dicussion, because it expends very little productive effort on the part of the productive members of society, while at the same time forcing upon the unproductive the exact Gordian knot they've been trying to talk their way around (and plenty, no doubt, hoped they had succeeded). That k
mircea_popescu: this meta cancer upon the modern brain. people spend so much time considering "the implications" of shit that never happened they have no energy left to do stuff.
mircea_popescu: imagine! "i won't accidentally discover clorophorm unless it can be used as an anesthetic!"
mircea_popescu: well it's certainly closer to being pursued after being measured than before eh.
mircea_popescu: all this nonsense of little girl stuck on the trans side of maturity river, discussing whether she wants to cross or not, what if the cis side won't be all that it's cracked up to be etc. wtf.
mircea_popescu: you will notice that the scam foundation is being fucking buried. in spite of... welll... consensus.
mircea_popescu: just measure the damned thing. if it doesn't come out, either refine the machinery or give up.
mircea_popescu: the shit's hard enough without waiting for complex voodoo to allign.
mircea_popescu: i never heard of this bizarro shamanistic approach to research.
mircea_popescu: and the proponent can't be doing or not doing "because of other people" (tm)
mircea_popescu: we're not discussing why some other blokes aren't testing it, we're discussing why the proponent isn't.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller makes you wonder how children were made before they invented shoes.
mircea_popescu: this is science not politics, what's biding your time do.